Cool. Hope my response helped you understand my position. As you can see there are natural processes the plant goes through in it's dark cycle so I like to allow that to happen. Does not mean it has to be done and I know many dont. In the end do what works for you.
I think many are stuck on THC levels when terrine content is just as important. Just having higher thc does not necessarily give you better bud IMO, its more a balance of thc and other properties that create the best bud. Even looking at breeder claims you can see autos are always listed below photos in THC content of same strains. Will you notice that couple point difference, probably not.
there is also alot of marketing done. to get an even % means the line must be bred to be stable , even then there will genetic drift. ive learned clones are the only way to get close to what you expect your buying. its a carnivourous market and even when a breeder grows lets say 100 cultivars and hits it big on 1 , they exploit the test results of that 1 cultivar and use it to brand the line. they also probably only test the best tops with the highest amount of thc(duh) . people like data Nd whatnot so telling them they will get 24-29% makes them spend cash faster. plus alot of us are not able to get our product tested at all, or use cheap test kits that average over a few % in a range.
Nothing wrong with your position, I get it. I still feel it's up to growers to preserve the gene pool and agree it is a concern. I am just as concerned about the constant crossing of strains messing up the gene pool. I think that is a big threat to landrace strains. I am here in Canada, dont have naturally growing plants out there that my tiny 4 plant grow can screw up. In the end there are many auto growers, I stopped and switched to photos but will still be growing a few autos outdoors next year as they have advantages here with our short summers. My indoor grows are photo all the way.
Talk about it!!!
I'm not defending autos by any means
I've been running the same thing because of him for a few years now 24/0 almost exclusively and its still kicking!!!
Could definitely be. Two of my autos are showing foxtailing and are overall ugly in my opinion. Two others were solid and from the same breeder. In fact I just harvested one of them. That single plant weight was almost the same as my entire last harvest. Not only was the yield impressive but so is the quality.